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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






2. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






3. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






4. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






5. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






6. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






7. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






8. The dictionary meaning of a word.






9. The organizational form of a literary work.






10. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






11. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






12. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






13. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






14. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






15. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






16. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






17. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






18. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






19. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






20. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






22. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






23. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






24. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






25. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






26. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






27. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






28. The person who 'tells' the story.






29. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






30. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






31. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






32. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






33. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






34. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






35. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






36. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






37. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






38. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






39. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






40. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. The main character of a literary work.






43. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






44. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






45. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






47. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






48. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






49. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






50. The emotion or feeling a word creates.